The 35-million people he rules have been mad at him for the past 26 years. And the rest of the world finally seems to agree it's time the tyrant bows out. But the man known as "the all-conquering ...
More than 20 years after the fall of the charismatic Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the vast African country with an iron fist from 1965 to 1997, many Congolese look back fondly on the ...
An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...
President Mobutu Sese Seko flew to nearby Gabon on Wednesday for a regional summit as suspense deepened as to whether the man who has held power longer than any current African ruler plans to ever ...
On January 21, I posted a short bio of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko on Facebook. Ten days later, an old friend from my active journalism days sent it to me via WhatsApp. Know what? It had gone viral and ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE SONDJI, a surgeon at the 2,000 bed Mama Yema hospital in Kinshasa, was the only person in the morgue not covering his face from the stench of rotting human flesh. It was dark. Another ...
Twenty years after he passed away, there is nothing in the capital of the former Zaire to remind visitors of Mobutu Sese Seko, the man famous for building big statues, bringing Muhammad Ali to ...
President Mobutu Sese Seko left Zaire today for a mini-summit in Gabon as reports emerged of a heavy civilian death toll in a battle on the road to his capital, Kinshasa. Residents and other sources ...
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